James wheeler



PatentedMay 19, 1896.

(No Model.)

. J. WHEELER.

PENEOLDER N0. 560,553. .fg/yf@ AN DREW BLRAHAM. PHUTOUTND.WASNING10N.D C

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES wI-IEELEE, or ILERAooMBE, ENGLAND.

PE'NHOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 560,553, dated May 19, 1896.

Application filed September 7,1895. Serial No. 561,801. (No model.) Patented in England December 21,1894,No. 24,831.

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES WHEELER, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at Ilfracombe, in the county of Devon, England, have invented Improvements in Penholders, (for which I have obtained Letters Patent in Great Britain, UNO. 24,831, dated December 21, 1894,) of which the following is a specification.

The obj ects of this invention are to provide penholders with means for holding' ordinary metallic pens in a more elastic manner than has hitherto been the case, and to provide them with means whereby the pen can be readily caused to make in its normal position an angle with the holder, or a different angle from that already made therewith.

Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawings are respectively a partial longitudinal section and an end view showing, to an enlarged scale, a penholder according to this invention; and Fig. 3 is a side elevation at right angles to Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a partial longitudinal section of, a penholder similar to that shown in Figs. 1 to 3, but provided with means for varying the angle made by the pen with the holder. Figs. 5, G, and 7 are separate views of details used in the holders shown in Figs. 1 to 4, inclusive, Figs. 5 and G being a side view and an end View, respectively, of

a saddle-piece, and Fig. 7 a side view of a spring hereinafter mentioned.

Referring to Figsfl and 2, the metallic barrel 1 of the penholder is iitted with an elas tic saddle-piece 2 of india-rubber or other suitable elastic material, between which and the barrel 1 the shank of the pen 3 is inserted. The result of this arrangement is that, in writing, the shank of the pen bears against the elastic saddle-piece, and the point thereof is consequently enabled to yield more than usual when pressed against the paper, whereby it is prevented to a great extent from entering the paper and thereby causing ink to be spurted. A metallic spring 4, coiled round a pin 5, secured across the barrel 1, is used to give elasticity to the saddle-piece 2, which is mounted loosely on the said pin 5.

The spring 4 is preferably made of metal bent to the form shown separately in Fig. 7, so that it will bear at 4 against the barrel 1,

and at 4b and 4c against the saddle-piece 2, so

as to effectually support the latter at both its front and rear ends. The lower limb of the spring is found to answer its purpose better when formed into a loop at the end 4a, as shown, and the more it approximates to the concavity of its bearing so much better is the support it affords to the front end of the saddle-piece. The rear end 4C of the spring may be lengthened and bent to the form shown in dotted lines in Fig. 7, so that it too may bear against the barrel 1. To provide greater softness to the working of the pen, this bent end 4d may be flattened out and burnished. In order to provide additional flexibility to the front end of the saddle-piece, the holes 2a therein, through which the pivot-pin 5 eX- tends, may be made in the form of slots, as shown in Figs. 1 and'5.

The saddle-piece is preferably provided with a clip 7, (see Figs. 5 and 6,) suitably secured to it at its inner end, for the purpose of receiving the inner or rear end of the pen 3. (See Fig. 1.)

Fig. 4 illustrates a device with which the holder shown in Figs. 1 and 2 can be provided in order that the pen 3 may be placed at a suitable angle with the holder 1. For this purpose the stem 8 of lthe holder is provided with a terminal blunt metallic point 9 and with a metallic mal'e screw-thread 10, corresponding to a female screw-thread 11, fitted or formed in the barrel 1. The saddle-piece 2 ends in an inclined tailpiece 12, against which the point 9 is arranged to bear, so that by screwing the thread 10 more orless into the thread l1 the saddle-piece 2 can be turned -more or less about its pin 5 and the pen 3 held by the clip 7 thereby inclined to the desired extent to the holder 1. The flexibility of the pen is provided for, as before, by the spring 4, which also serves to move the saddle-piece 2 and pen 3 in the opposite direction When the point 9 is screwed in a backward direction.

The tailpiece 12 in each case acts as a stop to limit the extent of turning movement of the saddle-piece in one direction.

1. In a penholder a yielding pen-carrier, and means for moving said carrier so as to more IOC) or less incline a pen carried thereby to the stem of said penholder, substantially as herein described.

2. A penholder comprising a stem, a bearing for the upper surface of a metallic pen, a yielding body adapted to force said pen outward, when the same is inserted between it and said bearing, and means for giving` a non mal inclinafiou to or varying the normal inclination of said pen to said stem, substantially as herein described.

A penholder comprising a bearing for the upper surface of a metallic pen, a saddle-piece adapted to serve as a bearing for the lower surface of said pen and rotatably mounted at the fore end of the penholder, and an elastic body adapted to force said saddle-piece upward and outward, substantially as herein described.

l. A penholder comprising` a barrel l to serve asa bearing for the upper surface of a metallic pen, a saddle-piece 2 rotatably mounted at the fore end of said barrel and adapted to serve as a bearing for the lower surface of said pen, and an elastic body acting against the inner surface of said saddlepiece and adapted to force said saddle-piece upward or outward with a yielding pressure against a pen inserted between said saddlepiece and barrel, substantially as described for the purpose specified.

5. A p enholder comprising a bearing for the upper surface of a metallic pen, a stem adjustable longitudinally with regard to said bearing, a saddle-piece adapted to serve as a support for the lower surface of said pen, rotatably mounted at the fore end of said bearing and provided with a part inclined to the axis of said stem, and a part in rigid connection with said adjustable stem and adapted to bear against said inclined part, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

G. A penholder comprising a bearing for the upper surface of a metallic pen, a stem adapted to screw into a part connected with the said bearing, and a saddle-piece which is adapted to serve as a support for the lower surface of said pen, is rotatablymounted at the fore end of said bearing, and is provided with a tailpiece inclined to the axis of said stem and adapted to come into contact with the fore end of the said stem, substantially as and for the purposes described.

7. A penholder comprising a barrel l, a pivoted saddle-piece 2 provided with a clip 7 and with an inclined tailpiece l2 an elastic body adapted to force the said saddle-piece upward, a female screw-thread l1 in the said barrel, and a stem 8 provided with a male screw-thread l0 and adapted to bear with its fore end against said tailpieee l2, all substantially as described and shown.

In testimony whereof I have si gncd my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES WIIEEL'ER.

lVitnesses:

WILL E. LANGDON, BoUeH'roN LANGDON. 

